By Patrick Goodenough | January 29, 2021 | 4:25am EST
Ahmed Omar Sheikh outside court in Karachi in March 2002. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Department of Justice reiterated on Thursday that the U.S. is ready to take into custody and put on trial a man convicted of the 2002 kidnapping and killing of
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, after Pakistan’s top court ordered his release from death row.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized the Pakistan Supreme Court’s decision that Ahmed Omar Sheikh should go free, in line with a lower court ruling last December. The December ruling followed an April 2020 decision by the High Court in Sindh province overturning the British national’s murder conviction, and sentencing him to seven years – time already served – for kidnapping.
بابری مسجد کی جگہ پر ایودھیا مندر کا منصوبہ پاکستان نے دھماکہ خیز اعلان کر دیا
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What Biden Needs To Know About Afghanistan
Pakistan’s strategic aim of installing a Taliban controlled government in Kabul is only to destabilize India outlookindia.com 2021-01-29T09:56:03+05:30
Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan, the new National Security Adviser to President Joe Biden spoke to Afghan NSA Hamdullah Mohib on January 22 assuring him of US commitment to the Afghan peace process. He also told him that the White House would like to review the February 2020 U.S.-Taliban agreement, to assess “whether the Taliban was living up to its commitments to cut ties with terrorist groups, to reduce violence in Afghanistan”. This review would include consultations with Afghan government, NATO allies and regional partners to evolve “a collective strategy” for supporting a stable and sovereign Afghanistan.
Cautions if vaccine not made available throughout a large part of developing world, virus will return
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January 28, 2021
GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS:
The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) president, Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan, has renewed the call for ensuring equitable access and distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, saying it was “vital” to control the deadly pandemic and for quick recovery of the virus-hit world economy.
“If the vaccine is not available through[out] a large part of the developing world, the virus will roam and return, triggering periodic shutdowns,” he said, while pointing out that it would further impede the economic recovery in the developing countries and slow down the global recovery.